People's Health Movement AHED

The Fifth General Conferance 2005

PEOPLE’S HEALTH:
DETERMINANTS, CURRENT CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES

CAIRO, MAY 14TH AND 15TH, 2005
Opening Session

Inaugural Session: (RTL) Maria Hamlin-Zuniga (PHM), Dr. Belgacem Sabri (WHO/EMRO), Prof. Helmi El-Hadidi, Head of the session (Professor of Orthopedic, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University – Former Health Minster), Dr. Alaa Shukrallah (AHED), Dr. Ibrahim El-Nekhaily (MOHP), Hani Serag (AHED).

On the 14th and 15th of May, the Association for Health and Environmental Development convened its fifth general conference, in collaboration with the People’s Health Movement (a global coalition of organizations dedicated to changing the prevailing health care delivery system). Entitled “People’s Health: Determinants, Current Challenges and Opportunities”, the conference aimed at identifying the current challenges facing people’s health, the determinants of ill health as well as identifying alternative strategies for achieving better health for all.
Second Session

Second Session: (RTL) Essam Hassan (AHED), Dr. Jihad Masha’l (Palestine), Dr. Mohamed H. Khalil (AHED).

Over the two days, more than one hundred participants representing civil society organizations (from Egypt, and from Palestine, Iraq and Morocco), Universities, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population, the WHO East Mediterranean Representative Office, as well as international representatives of the People’s Health Movement discussed numerous issues under four main themes. These were a) the features and causes of the current health situation/health crisis; b) neoliberal policies and militarization and their effects on human health c) global trade liberalization agreements and their effects on human health; and d) approaches and strategies of health care provision. Apart from presentations and discussions tackling issues at the national (Egyptian), regional and global levels in plenary sessions, testimonies were provided by several civil society groups involved in a variety of health-related local experiences and/or initiatives from across Egypt.

Complete Coverage of the Conference activities and Sessions.

Day One Sessions
First Session

› Globalisation, Health Sector Reform and Health for All: the Challenges Facing Africa and the Middle East. A Presentation by Dr. David Sanders : School of Public Health University of the Western Cape, Member of the Global Steering Group of the Peoples Health Movement, Member of the Steering Committee, Peoples Health Movement, South Africa.

› Health Situation in Egypt. A Presentation given by Dr. Alaa Shukrallah. Chairman of AHED.

Second Session

› A Society under siege: The Palestinian case. A Presentation given by Dr. Jihad Masha'l

› Neoliberal Policies & their Effect on Access to Health Services. A presentation Given by Dr. Mohamed Hassan Khalil

Third Session

› Global Health Watch : Mobilising civil society around an alternative World Health Report. A presentation given by Dr. David Sanders. Click Here for Arabic version

Day Two Sessions
Fifth Session

› Health Care Policies' Crisis in Egypt. A presentation by Dr. Abdelmouniem Abied. Click Here for Arabic Version

› Basic Health Needs of People. Dr. Narendra Gupta. People’s Health Movement India

Sixth Session

› A Presentation on People's Health Movement. Presented by Maria Hamlin-Zuniga

› Peoples Health:- Determinants, Challenges Faced by Africa. Presented by Ms. Mwajuma S. Masaiganah. Participatory Planning Facilitator, PHM East Africa/Member Global Steering Committee, Member Steering Committee EQUINET SADC, Member, Advisory Group -WGNRR

Working Groups

› The Darkness of Blindness is Deepening. Is There an Alternative Vision? by Dr. Gamal Ezz Elarab, Al Noor Foundation

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